Cigar-makersj board



(No Model.)

` A. THALLHEIMER. 0184.8 MAKBRS BOARD.

148291844. l Patented Jan. 8, 1884.

` UNirnn STATES PATENT OFFICE. l

ALBERT THALHEIMER, OF READING, PENNSYLVANIA.

CIGAR-MAKERS BOARD.

. SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 291,644, dated January 8, 1884.

Application filed March 13, 1883. (No model.)

To all whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, ALBERT THALHEIMER, a citizen of the United States, residing at the city of Reading, county of Berks, State of Pennsylvania, have invented a Ynew and useful Improvement in Cigar-Makers Boards, of which the following is a specication.

-This improvement relates more particularly to individual boards, usually carried from factory to factory by the owners thereof, but is applicable to all boards or tables for cigar-makers7 use.

The object of the invention is to supply a light board for transportation, convertible similar letters refer to similar parts of the same, Figure 1 represents in perspective the applicationof my improvement. Fig. 2 represents an end elevation, partly in section, of the same, in which- A represents a top for' a cigar-makers board, stamped in metal, A being a plastic backing.

A2 is a depression sunk in the face, inwhich the cigaris placed for trimming to size; A3, a scale which mayalso be stamped thereonor made visible in any other manner. l

B represents the gage, secured in place by a thumbscrew, B.

C represents a paste-cup, secured` in a bracket, C. If Vthought desirable, a depression for paste may be stamped at thesame time as the top itself. y

D represents a cigar-trimmer ofthe usual 5 construction, adapted to be secured to the right-hand end of the board by screws D, the handle of the knife-lever being shown at E. Ears or lugs A4, at the oppositeends, serve to secure the device in place on the workbench, screws being driven through the ears into the same, the ears A4t passed through the ilan ges, and embedded in the plastic backing,

To apply the plastic backing A', the metal face A is laid upside down upon a level sur face, and is then filled with fluid plaster-0fparis, cement, or a composition of glue and sawdust, papier-mache, or other equivalent material, which, soon hardening, forms a solid board.

When the operator desires to remove to another factory, he can easily displace the lling,and will have only the light metal top to carry away.

I have discovered practically that a zinc surface preserves the edge of the cigar-makers handdznife much longer than the wooden surface usually cut upon. This is owing to the f act that the wooden block, although set with the end of the block up, admits particles of sand and grit to embed themselves therein, which the zinc surface will not do, and is therefore always clean.

.I do not confine myself to the form of board shown, as they may be stamped of an infinite variety of forms and depth.

The corners may be square or rounded on plan, as shown, and the top edge may be rounded also.

I make no claim to a cigar-makers board per se, as they are old and well known to the trade; nor to the attachment'of a' cutter and paste-pot, as they are also common appliances; but I believe I am the rst to use a stamped metal cover provided with a cigar-depression and the accessories thereto, and weighted by a filling of plastic material.

The drawing fully explains to an expert my improvement, and I desire to obtain Letters Patent for the following claim thereon:

I claimi As a new article of manufacture, a stamped zinc metal facing for ci gar-makers boards, pro- .vided with the usual depressions and gage for set forth.

. ALBERT THALHEIMER, Witnesses:

WILLIAM L. GRAUL, EDWARD DAvIs.

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